anonymity is a blessing.
Let’s say you’re at a company’s HQ. You open up a file cabinet. In it you find 10,000 photographs of you taken throughout the years that you didn’t know about. How would you feel? People will 1 day feel that way about their internet data. I’m bullish about the space!
If The Hustle still had ads then this new Apple update would not have been good for us. That said: I LOVE it. I don’t want to be tracked.
Bitcoin is the culmination of the principles of the Enlightenment where for the first our individual inalienable rights are hard coded and freely accessible to everyone in the world
Brilliant. A coordinated campaign to get the UK's ICO to enforce the rules against spy pixels in emails. If you live in the UK, please consider participating. You can literally help change the internet. If the ICO issues a ruling, the dominos will fall. notospypixels.com
"Caring about privacy today is where caring about organic food was in the 90s. Still the preoccupation of a niche group of people, who might seem a little strange to those who haven't given the topic much thought, but one that's on the cusp of mainstream." world.hey.com/dhh/organic-fo…
This crazy scheme actually worked! There are many tens of thousands of paying HEY customers today. And we've already signed up hundreds of paying companies as well, even though HFW rolled out like five minutes ago. People are willing to pay for a product and not be the product. twitter.com/dhh/status/124…
But people who snoop on others with spy pixels also aren't ready for those victims to know what's going on. I'm really glad we're changing that! It's well over due that people can't just get away with this any more. twitter.com/schill_jan/sta…
Hard to know who to trust these days. But I've long been a fan of @1Password. I trust that @dteare wouldn't sell our data behind our back like this. (Especially after debating him on the REWORK podcast: rework.fm/venture-capita…). twitter.com/ktr4in/status/…
I mean, look at this. As we found, TWO THIRDS of all emails in HEY (not counting spam) included spy pixels. This has gotta stop (but until it does, please do protect yourself). twitter.com/dvassallo/stat…
Welcome to 2021: If you aren't being watched, shamed, and shared because of your neighbor's Ring surveillance camera, you're working from home under the constant eye of AI and a recording webcam. Even Winston had a corner of his flat to escape. This is worse. twitter.com/dhh/status/136…
We built HEY World in large part because we couldn't find any newsletter software that wasn't drenched in analytics harvested from spy pixels. It's a complete ethical black hole. And while some are now starting to offer opt-out, the only suitable conclusion is NOT AT ALL. twitter.com/hunterwalk/sta…
Agree with every word in here. The current opt-out regime only serves to prop up the litany of privacy abuses with a veneer of “if people really wanted to they could...”. That’s why the biggest abusers push to codify this bankrupt regime into law. nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opi…
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say" – @Snowden
"We need to bring back the idea that custodians of your reading habits, be they librarians or social media operators or online book sellers, should take a professional oath to keep your reading habits private." world.hey.com/dhh/what-you-r…
Why Google retreated from cookie tracking: "[Google's new FLoC tracking] groups you based on your interests and demographics, derived from your browsing history, to enable creepy advertising and other content targeting without third-party cookies." ☠️ spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-wit…
We gotta fucking stop calling it "side loading". Like it's something you do in a dark alley, away from the prying eyes of big brother. Installing software of your choice on a computer you own should not be an act of rebellion!
"The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts", what mission creep from the people I best know as the folks delivering my mailbox spam. news.yahoo.com/the-postal-ser…